What is NAS [Network Attached Storage]?

What is NAS?

Network Attached Storage [NAS] is a computer data storage connected to multiple computers in a environment providing data access to heterogeneous networks.  NAS provides fast, simple and reliable data access. NAS solutions are suitable for small and mid-sized businesses needing large data space accessed by multiple users over the network. For example, if there are about 50 or more users in a company, a NAS Server provides a central place to securely store and share all of your data. NAS can be thought of as a hard drive or multiple hard drives that are available to your entire network rather than for just one computer.

Especially when SMBs do not have dedicated IT departments, NAS is easy to deploy and manage.  NAS is often made as a computer device – a specialized computer built from the ground up for storing and serving files. An NAS solution may also offer print-server capabilities, which lets multiple users easily share a single printer.

Benefits of NAS

ü  Sharing of data by all the users on the network

ü  Store and access files from any pc on the network

ü  Backup and protect your data with RAID

ü  A NAS solution may include multiple hard drives in a RAID (Redundant

    Array of Independent Disks)

ü  NAS device runs independently of network server, the storage remains

    accessible even during network server outages.

ü  Easy to deploy. You can configure a NAS Server quickly and with little

    IT knowledge.

ü  Automatically and continuously backup data to give you peace of mind

Overall, NAS system allows you to consolidate storage, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing costs, simplify storage administration and data backup and recovery.